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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities. - Ann Richards https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go. - Sara Blakely https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. - Dolly Parton https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe. - Leymah Gbowee https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. - Julie Andrews https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. - Peggy O'Mara https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes. - B. Smith https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. - Anne Lamott https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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The challenge is not to be perfect...it's to be whole. - Jane Fonda https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. - Edith Wharton https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.' - Dilma Rousseff https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. - Margaret Thatcher https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. - Lucille Ball https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. - Tina Fey https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. - Shonda Rhimes https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT

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When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that's when you start to shine. - Bethenny Frankel https://t.co/R7ukEJC0RT